http://blog.nektra.com/main Innovation Innovation Innovation Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:23:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week Mozilla launched Firefox 3 officially. It was covered in a couple of sites like: It's Firefox 3 world record download day (techcrunch) A Few Firefox 3 Followups (slashdot) We have released a new version of Cookiepie firefox extension available for download, and we have a number of features and a long ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/06/19/cookiepie-for-firefox-3-released/ Using our API hooker SpyStudio I wrote a script to intercept http requests done using wininet.dll API coming from a specific module of a process. The script keeps request information (server and url) to display in next calls and let filter requests to a specific server. Its name is httpReport.py ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/06/17/googletoolbar-pagerank-requests/ Seems that the Google guys are getting softy. The last two questions of the Google Treasure Hunt 2008 were easily solved. The Question #1 is about paths. We have a robot that can move down or right, in a n x m grid. So how many possible paths exists, from the top ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/05/23/google-treasure-hunt-puzzles-are-too-easy/ Back in 2001 we wrote an arcane simple perl script just for fun. The script gave you the freedom to export IMDB movies from your ranking to your web page. Now in 2008 and with business goals in mind, we need to export/interact with information from sites like LinkedIn and ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/05/09/data-portability-is-good-but-late-20/ It is hard to find on the internet a detailed and complete solution for modifying the contextual menu due to several reasons. One of these reasons is that many of the implementations found use the System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu; you can see one of them here: Component-Based Development with Visual C# ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/04/24/how-to-customize-the-webbrowser-context-menu-in-c/ Introduction to SpyStudio: SpyStudio is a powerful application that simplifies the code execution interception operations, also called "hooking". Users can now easily monitor and gain control over processes in their systems, to really know what is happening in the Operating System and it's applications. With SpyStudio you can monitor and intercept API calls at ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/02/27/spystudio-100b-released/ Introduction In this article we analyze Windows Live Messenger 8.5, that is the last version of MSN Messenger.Windows Live Messenger does provide a plugin api (Messenger, Add-ins, and more...) but the features exposed are a very limited subset. Also, this plugin support is not enabled by default and requires the user ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/02/12/windows-live-messenger-internals/ Cookiepie is one of the favorite Firefox extensions for web developers and users of webmail services like Google Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.Web developers use cookiepie to test their sites.In the past, if a site (e.g. home banking, community site) required extensive testing simulating many different users, the developer needed to ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2007/12/05/cookiepie-100-open-many-gmail-yahoo-hotmail-accounts-on-firefox/ We have released the first version of Deviare. A free trial is available for download.Deviare is a component for 'easy hooking' of Windows DLLs. Now you don't need to be an expert to incercept operating system functions because you use a COM object abstracting many of the complexities.To show the ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2007/07/31/deviare-hook-component-released/ As you may already know, Nektra core skills & knowledge can be briefly summarized in system internals & problem solving, innovation and creativity. We were working hard to introduce new products in the market and it's very stimulating when you receive "Wows!" from people who can appreciate the complex stuff ... http://blog.nektra.com/main/2007/05/16/next-moves-spy-studio-deviare-oeapi-for-vista-nkt-wab-lgpl/